June, I920.] Blatchley: Xew Rhynchopiiora. 165 



with very small oval silvery gray scales ; disk with rows of close-set rather 

 coarse punctures, these much wider than the narrow feebly convex inter^'als. 

 Abdomen rather coarsely and closely punctate, each puncture enclosing a very 

 small gray scale. Length, 3.5-3.8 mm. 



Named in honor of H. P. Lotling of Mobile, Ala., who kindly gave 

 me four specimens taken near Mobile, August i. He states (Ms.) 

 that: "They were found after a cloud-l)urst on grasses and other 

 plants on the site of an old dried-up pond, where they, with many 

 other things, were trying to save themselves from the flood." This 

 species belongs under aa of Group III (p. 171) of the Rhyncliophora. 

 It differs from the other three species there included in being wholly 

 without setas. The scales are much smaller than in any of the others 

 and are so arranged that the surface hue is plainly visible. Two of 

 them, smaller than the others, are probably males, though no sexual 

 distinctions are evident. 



256. Hormops abducens Lee. — A colony of 60 or more specimens 

 of this rare beetle was found in Skinner's Hammock near Dunedin in 

 February, 1918. It was in a large bunch of dead twigs and leaves in 

 a tangle of vines about ten feet above the ground.^ A single specimen 

 was foimd aliout one-half mile distant in the same haniniock in 191 9. 

 Leng, in the same number of the Journal cited, p. 209. records it also 

 from Waco, Texas. 



Smicronyx halophilus new species. 



Elongate-oval, convex. Dull rtd ; head, antennre, suture of elytra and 

 tarsi darker. Sides of thorax densely clothed with large, oval, grayish-white 

 scales : elytra with basal fifth, humeri, and a large oblique patch on median 

 third thickly clothed, and the three outer intervals and apex more thinly clothed, 

 with similar scales; entire under surface thickly clothed with circular, ocellate, 

 white scales. Beak rather stout, of nearly equal size throughout, feebly cur\'ed, 

 scarcely as long as thorax, male, as head and thorax, female, thickly reticulate- 

 punctate. Second and third joints of funicle subequal, together scarcely as 

 long as first. Thorax slightly longer than wide, narrowed in front and con- 

 stricted near apex, sides broadly rounded, disk densely and finely punctate. 

 Elytra oval, conjointly nearly two-thirds wider than base of thorax, humeri 

 prominent ; sides parallel to beyond middle, thence gradually curved and con- 

 vergent to the narrowly rounded apex: striae narrow, minutely punctate; in- 

 tervals flat, three times as wide as stride, minutely rugose, without visible punc- 

 tures or setae. Under surface very finely and thickly punctate, the sculpture 

 hidden by scales. Length, 2.3-2.7 mm. 



1 Sec Journ. \. Y. Ent. Soc, XX\'L 191S, pp. 155-161. 



